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Extractions: var s_account="msnportalencartauk"; Print Clancy, Tom Article View On the File menu, click Print to print the information. Clancy, Tom Clancy, Tom (1947-â), American novelist, critically praised as the master of the techno-military thriller. He was born Thomas L. Clancy in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at Baltimore's Loyola College. A successful career in insurance allowed him to pursue his original ambition of writing. Intrigued by a news story about a mutiny aboard a Soviet frigate, Clancy reworked the incident to produce his first novel, The Hunt for Red October (1984), in which the captain of a Soviet ballistic-missile submarine decides to defect to the United States, taking his ship with him. The book was an instant best-seller, winning the admiration of United States government officials and cooperation from the Pentagon for research on further books. His second novel, Red Storm Rising (1986), a fictional World War III fought with high-tech weaponry, and his third, Patriot Games (1987), had as its subject the war against terrorism. Terrorism remained the focus in Clancy's The Sum of All Fears (1991), in which Middle Eastern terrorists nearly trigger a nuclear war.